First-Ever School Choice Civil Disobedience Protest Set for Washington, D.C. at U.S. Dept. of Education
Prominent Leaders to Take Stand; Demand Action from President Obama
Washington, D.C. (September 8, 2009) ? In the first-ever act of school choice-related civil disobedience, prominent education reform leaders will block entrance to the U.S. Department of Education building today at 9:30 A.M. and demand that President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan act immediately to save and strengthen the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.?
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The protest will take place at 9:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, September 8, at the U.S. Department of Education headquarters (4th and Maryland Avenues, SW) in Washington, D.C.
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Protest leaders Kevin P. Chavous, Virginia Walden Ford, Rev. Anthony J. Motley, Dr. Howard Fuller, Gerard Robinson, and Darrell Allison say they will?stand and?block?entrance to the?U.S. Department of Education headquarters in a show of support for the 216 low-income District students who, because of actions by President Obama and Secretary Duncan,?were refused entry this week into the schools of their parents’ choice. The Department of Education revoked the Opportunity?Scholarships of these 216 children last Spring.
Darrell Allison is the President of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina
